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Chapter 4 True/False

1.

1) The cell walls of bacteria are responsible for the shape of the bacteria and the difference in the Gram stain reaction.

Answer: TRUE

2.

2) Antibiotics that target the cell wall are an effective treatment against many pathogenic bacteria.

Answer: TRUE

3.

3) Cells placed in a hypotonic solution tend to lose water due to osmotic pressure.

Answer: FALSE

4.

4) Small, hydrophobic molecules pass through a cell membrane most easily by diffusion.

Answer: TRUE

5.

5) Spheroplasts, protoplasts, and mycoplasms are bacterial cells without cell walls.

Answer: TRUE

6.

6) Endospores are a reproductive structure.

Answer: FALSE

7.

7) The internal structure of eukaryotic cilia and flagella are the same.

Answer: TRUE

8.

8) Many enzymes in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells are compartmentalized within organelles.

Answer: FALSE

9.

9) The number of organelles such as chloroplasts, mitochondria, and rough endoplasmic reticulum is the same in all eukaryotic cells.

Answer: TRUE

10.

10) If you observe rod-shaped red cells after the Gram stain, you can assume their cell walls contain endotoxin.

Answer: TRUE